The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 30
The woman did not hesitate a moment, and said that after what had happened before, the dog’s advice must certainly be obeyed, so the tree was felled, and a beautiful mortar made from it.
Who acts: woman · What happens: not hesitate, say, happen, obey, fell, make · To what, where: advice, tree, beautiful mortar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hesitate | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hesitate | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hesitate | advmod |
| 5 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hesitate | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hesitate | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 happened | mark |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 happened | mark |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happened | aux |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 happened | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 obeyed | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dog | det |
| 19 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 advice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 dog | case |
| 21 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 obeyed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 obeyed | aux |
| 23 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 25 obeyed | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 obeyed | aux:pass |
| 25 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 happened | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 felled | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 felled | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tree | det |
| 29 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 felled | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 felled | aux:pass |
| 31 | felled | fell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 mortar | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 mortar | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 mortar | det |
| 35 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 mortar | amod |
| 36 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 felled | obl |
| 37 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 mortar | acl |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 made | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hesitate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hesitate | past · do-support | the woman | moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | before property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | obey | must · passive | the dog's advice | certainly property | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fell | past · passive | the tree | a beautiful mortar obl | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | participle | a beautiful mortar not said here | tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from it=Material |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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